What's the highest salary you've ever turned down, and why did you say no? Or Alternatively, what is the lowest offer you accepted when you probably shouldn't have?

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I turned down a traveling job for six figures because I couldn't be away from my aging parents. I've never made six figures and it was tough to say no to. I also once turned down a home health opportunity that sounded really flexible but turned out to be $16 an hour. No thanks.

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Man, that first one hurts just reading it. Six figures AND you had to look your own future in the eye and say “nah, not worth leaving Mom and Dad right now”? That’s heavy. Most people never even get offered a number that big, and you had the guts to turn it down for something that actually matters more than money. Respect. Seriously.
The home health one is almost funny in a dark way like, they really tried to sell “super flexible!” as if $16/hr magically becomes okay if your schedule is chill.

12$/hr for a CSR role when I was younger. The pay I could have tolerated if everybody hadn’t been out to get you.

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That is very well put! I didn’t last long there, and I firmly believe it would have made me miserable and insufferable had I stayed for any length of time.

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Package worth $500k a year bec I didn’t want to sell my soul off shoring American jobs.

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